MRQE Ranks: Martin Scorsese's Best to Worst Movies

1

Taxi Driver (1976)

Cast: Robert De Niro, Jodie Foster, Cybill Shepherd, Peter Boyle, Leonard Harris

Director: Martin Scorsese

Synopsis: "All the animals come out at night" -- and one of them is a cabby about to snap. In Martin Scorsese's classic 1970s drama, insomniac ex-Marine Trav... [MORE]

2

Goodfellas (1990)

Cast: Ray Liotta, Robert De Niro, Joe Pesci, Lorraine Bracco, Paul Sorvino

Director: Martin Scorsese

Synopsis: Martin Scorsese explores the life of organized crime with his gritty, kinetic adaptation of Nicolas Pileggi's best-selling Wiseguy, the true-life a... [MORE]

3

Raging Bull (1980)

Cast: Robert De Niro, Cathy Moriarty, Joe Pesci, Frank Vincent, Nicholas Colasanto

Director: Martin Scorsese

Synopsis: Martin Scorsese's brutal character study incisively portrays the true rise and fall and redemption of middleweight boxer Jake La Motta, a violent m... [MORE]

4

After Hours (1985)

Cast: Griffin Dunne, Rosanna Arquette, Verna Bloom, Linda Fiorentino, Teri Garr

Director: Martin Scorsese

Synopsis: Martin Scorsese's After Hours is a dark, tragi-comic tale of a fish out of water, centering on an uptight, white-bread computer consultant from upt... [MORE]

5

Mean Streets (1973)

Cast: Robert De Niro, Harvey Keitel, Amy Robinson, David Proval

Director: Martin Scorsese

Synopsis: "You don't make up for your sins in church; you do it in the streets; you do it at home. The rest is bulls--t, and you know it." Returning to the a... [MORE]

6

The King of Comedy (1983)

Cast: Robert De Niro, Jerry Lewis, Sandra Bernhard, Diahnne Abbott, Ed Herlihy

Director: Martin Scorsese

Synopsis: Martin Scorsese's satirical comedy/drama caustically explores the lengths to which a nobody will go to be as famous as his idol. Practicing his pat... [MORE]

7

Hugo (2011/II)

Cast: Asa Butterfield, Chloe Moretz, Sacha Baron Cohen, Christopher Lee, Emily Mortimer

Director: Martin Scorsese

Synopsis: Martin Scorsese's adaptation of Brian Selznick's award-winning novel The Invention of Hugo Cabret stars Asa Butterfield, as an orphan boy who lives... [MORE]

8

The Departed (2006)

Cast: Leonardo DiCaprio, Matt Damon, Jack Nicholson, Mark Wahlberg, Martin Sheen

Director: Martin Scorsese

Synopsis: Legendary director Martin Scorsese takes the helm for this tale of questionable loyalties and blurring identities set in the South Boston organized... [MORE]

9

The Last Temptation of Christ (1988)

Cast: Willem Dafoe, Barbara Hershey, Harvey Keitel, Harry Dean Stanton, David Bowie

Director: Martin Scorsese

Synopsis: Willem Dafoe plays Jesus Christ in this extraordinarily controversial adaptation of Nikos Kazantzakis's novel. The film depicts a sometimes relucta... [MORE]

10

The Aviator (2004)

Cast: Leonardo DiCaprio, Cate Blanchett, Kate Beckinsale, John C. Reilly, Alec Baldwin

Director: Martin Scorsese

Synopsis: Martin Scorsese directed this fast-moving, epic-scale biopic documenting the life and loves one of the most colorful Americans of the 20th century,... [MORE]

11

The Last Waltz (1978)

Director: Martin Scorsese

Synopsis: Martin Scorsese's documentary of the 1976 final performance of the legendary Sixties rock group The Band is at once a show featuring some of the gr... [MORE]

12

Casino (1995)

Cast: Robert De Niro, Sharon Stone, Joe Pesci, James Woods, Don Rickles

Director: Martin Scorsese

Synopsis: The inner-workings of a corrupt Las Vegas casino are exposed in Martin Scorsese's story of crime and punishment. The film chronicles the lives and ... [MORE]

13

The Age of Innocence (1993)

Cast: Daniel Day-Lewis, Michelle Pfeiffer, Winona Ryder, Richard E. Grant, Alec McCowen

Director: Martin Scorsese

Synopsis: In Martin Scorsese's adaptation of Edith Wharton's 1920 novel, romance between an upper-class gentleman and an ostracized lady is doomed by 19th ce... [MORE]

14

Cape Fear (1991)

Cast: Robert De Niro, Nick Nolte, Jessica Lange, Juliette Lewis, Joe Don Baker

Director: Martin Scorsese

Synopsis: Martin Scorsese's remake of Cape Fear provided the director with a box-office success to follow up the critical success of the previous year's Good... [MORE]

15

Kundun (1997)

Cast: Tenzin Thuthob Tsarong, Gyurme Tethong, Tulku Jamyang Kunga Tenzin, Tenzin Yeshi Paichang, Tencho Gyalpo

Director: Martin Scorsese

Synopsis: This Martin Scorsese film drama detailing the Dalai Lama's life story was in development for seven years, with the Dalai Lama having input into the... [MORE]

16

Shine a Light (2008)

Director: Martin Scorsese

Synopsis: After exploring the careers of the Band and Bob Dylan in The Last Waltz and No Direction Home: Bob Dylan, respectively, acclaimed director Martin S... [MORE]

17

Gangs of New York (2002)

Cast: Leonardo DiCaprio, Daniel Day-Lewis, Cameron Diaz, Jim Broadbent, Liam Neeson

Director: Martin Scorsese

Synopsis: The violent rise of gangland power in New York City at a time of massive political corruption and the city's evolution into a cultural melting pot ... [MORE]

18

Bringing Out the Dead (1999)

Cast: Nicolas Cage, Patricia Arquette, John Goodman, Ving Rhames, Marc Anthony

Director: Martin Scorsese

Synopsis: This tense urban drama stars Nicolas Cage as Frank Pierce, a paramedic on the brink of physical and emotional collapse. Frank has worked for years ... [MORE]

19

Shutter Island (2010)

Cast: Leonardo DiCaprio, Mark Ruffalo, Ben Kingsley, Michelle Williams, Max von Sydow

Director: Martin Scorsese

Synopsis: Martin Scorsese and Leonardo DiCaprio team up for a fourth time for this adaptation of Shutter Island, a novel by Dennis Lehane (Mystic River). The... [MORE]

20

New York, New York (1977)

Cast: Robert De Niro, Liza Minnelli, Lionel Stander, Barry Primus, Mary Kay Place

Director: Martin Scorsese

21

Shark Tale (2004)

Director: Eric Bergeron, Vicky Jenson, Rob Letterman

Synopsis: Oceanic wise guys meet up with a small fish who has a big attitude in this computer-animated comedy. Don Lino (voice of Robert De Niro) is the patr... [MORE]